Year 7 Science: Our Earth in Space Topic Test

​The main cause of day and night is

• rotation of the earth

• revolution of the earth

• orbit of the earth

• the tilt of the earth on its axis

The brightest object in the night sky is

• sun

• moon

• alpha centuri

• mars

The different shapes of the moon as seen from earth are called:

• stages

• phases

• fractions

• crescents

The tilt of the earths axis:

• 5 degrees
• 10.2 degrees
• 23.5 degrees
• 365.25 degrees

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How long does it take the moon to rotate on its axis?

• 24 hours
• 23 days
• 365.25 days
• 28 days

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The first man on the man was:

• Lance Armstrong

• Buzz Aldrin

• Neil Armstrong

• Edwin Hubble

A word used to describe a moon that is "getting larger"

• gibbous
• crescent
• waxing 
• waning

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The imaginary line that passes through earth and the north and south poles.

• axis
• graviy
• equator
• prime meridian

As the moon revolves around the earth, we always see the same side of the moon.

• true
• false

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Seasons on Earth are caused by how close the earth is to the sun

• true
• false

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